Great, but I never said that after 2-3 beers I wouldn't be impaired. These are all your inventions. And for the millionth time, it's not a comparison between the effects of two substances that are both known to impair people's judgment.

If you want to go that route, there's an actual process to determine blood alcohol level and state law determines what is and isn't DUI. As for smoking dope? Good luck telling Johnny Law Officer that you only smoked a bowl and aren't wasted. They're not going to care and will probably arrest you.

I guess I should have said "it was?" because all I see you commenting on is being able to drink at 7am. Toss in that beer is food thing and IDK man.

I'm not sure that all the states that have made it legal have a gage but for WA, they have a THC limit just like all states have a BAC limit.

Quote:

Over half of those were over the state's new legal limit of 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood.

GG

__________________
The spider never understands what the fly is complaining about.

I've driven in the past while high on pot and have lived to talk about it. I also used to get high a lot before work, during work, and after work in my younger years. (So sue me.) I was well suited to my work and it was easy for me to do back then.

For me personally, driving under the influence of alcohol is really a bad thing. I seldom drink so I don't have a lot of alcohol stories, but one time in my younger years I was at a restaurant with a friend and I drank a lot more than I think I ever did, and when I got out to my car I just closed my eyes and slept it off. Then I drove home.

There ARE degrees of intoxication, in my opinion, based on my personal experience. And I WOULD rather share the road with a pot head than a drunk or a cell phone user. I think pot heads are far less dangerous than the other two.

You are ALL a menace to other drivers on the road. I don't know why pot heads tend to excuse themselves for DUI.

How much did the state of Colorado say they would "make" off of the legalization of Marijuana? So, I believe I heard from 200-500 million dollars. Yet, federal tax dollars will be used to fund "Don't Drive Stoned" ads? huh? How about Colorado spend their own money?

DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado will warn motorists against driving stoned in a campaign backed by$430,000 in new federal funding, officials said on Monday, two weeks after the first U.S. recreational marijuana retail shops opened in the state.

A series of television public announcement spots will air across the state beginning in March, warning drivers that offenders will face similar penalties to those caught driving under the influence of alcohol, said Emily Wilfong, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Handouts and posters will be distributed at the state's marijuana shops as part of the public service campaign funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, she said.

In 2012, voters in Washington state and Colorado approved the possession of small amounts of cannabis by adults, although the drug remains illegal under federal law.

The Obama administration said last year that federal law enforcement will not target users in Colorado and Washington, as long as they comply with their respective states' laws.

The country's first recreational pot shops opened in Colorado on January 1. Washington state will follow later this year.

Mike Elliott, executive director of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, said in a statement that the pro-legalization movement supports government efforts to warn motorists of impaired driving.

"The (state department of transportation) and the industry want to stress the importance of using this newly legalized drug in a safe manner," he said.

Public consumption of pot remains illegal, as is having open containers of cannabis in motor vehicles, said Darrell Lingk, director of Colorado's Office of Transportation Safety.

"There are some who do not feel that marijuana can impair driving but it does," Lingk said. "Marijuana affects reaction time, short-term memory, hand-eye coordination, concentration and perception of time and distance."

Colorado lawmakers passed a driving-while-stoned law that set a 5-nanogram per-milliliter of blood threshold for tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive property in marijuana.

Police agencies across the state have so-called drug recognition experts to detect drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs, said Trooper Nate Reid, spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol.

Reid said protocols for investigating suspected stoned drivers are different from those used for alcohol detection.

Reid said that over the weekend, a 23-year-old suburban Denver man was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs after he crashed into two state patrol cruisers that were stopped on a highway.

Officers were out of their vehicles investigating a separate accident, Reid said, and were not injured in the crash.

"Marijuana was the drug involved," he said.

IMHO, those profiting from the sale of pot should be the one paying for the ad campaign...

"The (state department of transportation) and the industry want to stress the importance of using this newly legalized drug in a safe manner," he said.

I guess I should have said "it was?" because all I see you commenting on is being able to drink at 7am. Toss in that beer is food thing and IDK man.

On another recent thread, I claimed to have an eleven inch dong. Maybe I'm not using enough emoticons or something... I don't know. I try to leave it up to the individual to decide when I'm being serious and when I'm joking.

Or maybe I really do have eleven inches.

Quote:

I'm not sure that all the states that have made it legal have a gage but for WA, they have a THC limit just like all states have a BAC limit.

Interesting. Unfortunately it requires a blood test to make that determination. So does that mean cops in WA have to arrest drivers and haul them in to do that or is there some sort of device like a breathalyzer they can use?

BTW, how do you know people who are driving high are menaces? You don't because you don't know who is high and who is not.

Because by definition people who are high are impaired and those who are impaired pose a threat to innocent people. It's really simple. It's also amazing you still don't get it and continue to minimize it as you do.